This team has become an embarrassment. It is barely capable of competing, yet alone winning, and there are reasons up and down the roster, in the coaching staff, and in the front office, for this putrid product that we have been forced to watch. The Bills have now scored eight touchdowns in nine games, good for 96 points, barely 10 per game. No team in NFL history could win on a consistent basis with an average like that, not even the 1985 Bears or 2000 Ravens, teams with two of the best defenses in NFL history. The season can’t end fast enough.

Pass Offense

Peterman claimed after the game that he’s not “snakebit” but you have to wonder. His first two picks were not his fault as the passes bounced off the hands of Terrelle Pryor and Zay Jones and went right to the Bears, the second of which was returned 19 yards for a TD. Peterman established a career high for yards and started and finished a game for the first time. However, much of the yardage was in garbage time. Kelvin Benjamin could have caught a TD pass, but he didn’t, and finished with his usual meaningless four catches for 40 yards. Jones gained only 18 yards on four catches, and the new guy, Pryor, didn’t exactly “ball out” like he said he could with two catches for 17 yards. As for the offensive line, absolutely horrible.

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Run Offense

LeSean McCoy can no longer function for the Bills. It has become impossible for two reasons, the same we’ve known all season: The line cannot block, and every defense devotes almost all of its resources to stopping him when he’s on the field because there is no fear of the passing game. McCoy had 10 yards on 10 carries, meaning he has 24 yards on his last 24 carries dating to Oct. 21 against the Colts. The Bills were foolish not to trade him last week. Sean McDermott told us all we need to know about the line when he treated it like a preseason game, rotating Jeremiah Sirles and Jordan Mills at RT and Vlad Ducasse and rookie Wyatt Teller at LG. This group is a travesty.

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Pass Defense

Mitchell Trubisky completed only 12 of 20 passes for 135 yards and he threw a pick right into the arms of Tre’Davious White. Not one of his best days, but it didn’t matter. He didn’t need to do a whole lot because his defense kept scoring, or at least putting him into position to score. Essentially, this couldn’t have been an easier day for the second-year quarterback because all he had to do was not screw it up. The Bears scored on offensive drives of 37, 23, 70, 1, and 50 yards because Chicago’s defense and special teams overmatched the Bills. One area that hurt the Bills was their lack of a pass rush as they never made Trubisky feel too uncomfortable.

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Run Defense

The Bears finished with only 64 yards rushing and a lame 2.6 average per attempt. The only big run they had was a bad one for the Bills as Jordan Howard broke three tackles on his way to an 18-yard TD that made it 28-0. Otherwise, Chicago did nothing on the ground. As it was, the Bills held the Bears to just 11 first downs and 190 yards. Julian Stanford filled in for injured LB Tremaine Edmunds and had a team-high eight tackles and forced a fumble, while DE Shaq Lawson, starting for Trent Murphy, was in on seven tackles and broke up a pass.

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Special Teams

Coach Danny Crossman will be screaming again in the film room, something he has become accustomed to. Logan Thomas committed a stupid personal foul when he blasted Tarik Cohen way out of bounds, and that gave the Bears a drive start at the Buffalo 37, setting up their first TD. Then, Cohen broke a 36-yard punt return which set up the Bears' fourth TD late in the first half. Colton Schmidt’s return to Buffalo was not impressive as he averaged a terrible 28.0 net and 37.6 gross on his five punts, numbers that got him cut in the first place. With eight touchbacks, the Bills never had a kickoff return, and Micah Hyde did nothing with two punt returns.

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Coaching

Only because the defense wasn’t terrible is this grade not an F. Special teams were hurtful, but they played like Super Bowl champs compared to the offense which seems to play at new levels of futility each week. Brian Daboll is working with nothing, but he also has been as uninspiring a play-caller as can be. Again, working with what he has, it’s tough to kill him. McDermott says the same thing every week, that the Bills are competing and trying and all that coach speak that means zip when you’re 2-7. He said he’ll look at the tape, but all that film study means squat when nothing ever changes.